Quality Assurance Lead

Lead enterprise QA strategy, automation and governance across digital products, partnering with product, engineering and business teams to embed quality throughout the lifecycle in a complex, highly regulated environment.

• €70,000 to €75,000 salary
• Own enterprise-wide QA strategy
• Work directly with the Chief Product Officer
• Shape quality across critical digital products
• Build a modern quality engineering capability

Overview

This is an opportunity to take ownership of how quality and testing works across digital products and platforms.

You will define the enterprise QA strategy, introduce consistent standards and governance, and work with product, engineering and digital leads to ensure quality is built into the full product lifecycle.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can think strategically about quality while still understanding the engineering behind modern test automation and delivery.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and own the enterprise QA and testing strategy
• Establish consistent testing standards, frameworks and governance
• Partner with digital leads, product managers, designers and engineers
• Lead automation strategy across frontend, backend, APIs and integrations
• Drive shift-left testing and continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Establish regression, performance, security and reliability testing approaches
• Define acceptance criteria and release quality thresholds
• Own release quality governance and support go/no-go decisions
• Introduce risk-based testing for critical operational and customer-facing systems
• Coach testing teams and build stronger QA capability across the organisation

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 8+ years of experience across QA, testing or quality engineering
• 3-5+ years in QA leadership roles
• Experience defining QA strategy across multiple products or delivery teams
• Strong test automation experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or RestAssured
• Strong API and integration testing experience
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Understanding of performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter or Gatling
• Experience establishing quality standards, governance and release processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across product, engineering and business teams
• Comfortable operating in a complex environment where quality, risk and reliability really matter

Experience within healthcare, financial services, SaaS or another regulated environment would be particularly useful.

Exposure to FHIR, clinical systems or enterprise integration platforms would be a bonus, but is not essential.

What's In It for You

• Salary: €70,000 - €75,000
• Join a leading organisation operating within a complex, highly regulated sector
• Define and shape the quality strategy behind critical digital products and platforms
• Own enterprise-wide QA strategy, standards, automation and release quality
• Work directly with the Chief Product Officer and Digital Leads across the organisation
• Build and develop a modern quality engineering capability across a growing digital organisation

Culture

This role sits within the digital function and reports directly to the Chief Product Officer.

You will work across product, engineering and business teams rather than operating as an isolated testing function. There is a strong emphasis on shared ownership of quality, with the right standards, processes and automation in place so teams can deliver confidently without quality becoming a bottleneck.

This will suit someone who enjoys building things properly, influencing across teams and shaping a quality function rather than simply inheriting one.